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Meet the Cast

Every story starts from something real: a situation that came up in practice.

Falco

Kree’s oldest friend, and the world is smaller with him in it. Made his fortune, then chose the world over a mansion. Boba tea is his drink of choice.

Kree

Left the corporate grind for a hut on a Thai island. Built a nomad life that feels free. Freedom turned out to come with paperwork.

Ida

Forty years of this, and nothing surprises her. She is the reason everyone in this cast eventually knows each other.

Portrait to come

Faye

Kree’s sister. 183 days a year in New York earning enough to fund the rest of it.

Portrait to come

Van

Queenie’s doting husband and highly compensated software engineer in big tech. They met abroad, then moved to the US when the job offer was too good to pass up. Taxes make him cringe.

Portrait to come

Queenie

Stood beside Van as his career launched them into a very high tax bracket, and still wants to trade it all for the simple life she gave up abroad.

Portrait to come

Makeda

Ethiopian-American food creator, huge following. Something keeps pulling her toward a country she has never actually lived in.

Portrait to come

Eleanor

Kree’s friend, still stateside. Wants out badly enough to keep almost starting the business that would get her there.

Portrait to come

Sal

Gives you confident advice you didn’t ask for. He is always sure. He is often wrong.

Why we do it this way

We created them because tax law is complicated enough without making it feel cold and impersonal. The characters make it easier to see yourself in a situation before you have to admit you are already in it. They ask the questions you might be afraid to ask. They make the mistakes that are easier to read about when they happen to someone else.

If a situation in one of our posts sounds familiar, that is not a coincidence. It is the point.

The characters are fiction. The tax situations are not.

TaxJet is a US expat tax firm. Nothing on this blog constitutes legal or tax advice for your specific situation. For advice tailored to your circumstances, find your plan at taxjet.co.

Illustrations by Qianhui Yu